Knives you used in Boy Scouts

Japanese Swiss Army Knife
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I carried a spyderco Bull Moran during my CIT / Camp councilor work at Camp Falling Rock in Eastern Ohio in the early 2000's for 4-5 summers.

It and a Leatherman are the only two knives I can name specifically, obviously lots of SAK's and other more typical traditionals.
 
"Knives Knives are permitted to be carried when an individual can show proof of completion of a knife safety class, such as Toten’ Chip. Knife style and design should be appropriate for Scouting uses. Folding pocketknives or leatherman-type tools work best. Hunting and sheath-type knives are not permitted."

Camp Falling Rock policy guide 2015, 2016,
 
Was the banning of even small fixed blades a safety issue to them.

Plenty of scout movements in other countris allowed fixed blades.
 
Wow that's horrible! I'd say around 2004 was the last year I worked there (and that was a few years after my troop stopped attending that specific camp). Fixed blades were definitely permitted at that time, both for staff and patrons.

I wonder if a specific incident caused the implementation of that policy. :(
 
When I got back into it for a few years as an ASM I carried a Mora, Case Texas Jack, and SAK Super Tinker. I didn't care what was permitted by whom. The troop broke up thanks to a meth head mom and her thieving ways. I'm done with scouting forever, but I have some good memories.
 
Knives didn't loom large in Scouting, or at least, not in my experience of it. I became a Scoutmaster carrying the same Imperial Schrade Kamp King purchased at age 12 when I joined the Boy Scouts. But our troop had a camping kit that contained, among basic camping what-all, a couple of hatchets, a machete, and some food prep and sheath knives. Some of the boys had their own pocket knives, mostly used for playing '"stretch." Knives were not a big deal to us, but somehow we managed to cope with the elements and, I might add, be less destructive of the environment.
 
Do not know how to apply "large," but I will say many things are more important.

But in 2011, BSA started saying that we in Scouting have a duty to tech Scouts the proper use of all legally owned knives. I suspect someone noted that drawer full of steel in almost every kitchen and wondered how the Scouts would learn to use it - and especially how if not in Scouting. Certainly, not thorough "zero tolerance" policies. That duty, by the way, is set out in the Guide to Safe Scouting.

And now B.S.A. is selling several models of sheath knives again.
 
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Yes, they are, but the only fixed blades listed in the official BSA Catalog website are 8 Helle fixed blades, ranging from $105 to $150 and a $30 filet knife. Not exactly in the price range of most scouts to buy their own.
 
BSA could do better with offerings from Essee and Ka-Bar - even TOPS.

But the "scouts" can also do better from other vendors.

The point is not the wonderfulness of ScoutStuff.org as a seller, but the reality that its hard to describe BSA as anti-sheath knife given the actual facts, as compared to the myths. The 2008 Boy's Life article suggested:

Buck Diamondback Guide ($27; http://www.buckknives.com/)
This knife has a 3 1/8-inch-long drop-point blade with a texturized rubber handle.

SOG Field Pup ($60; http://www.sogknives.com/)
A four-inch stainless steel straight-edge blade with an easy-to-grip handle and nylon sheath

If not my choices, certainly sheath knives.
 
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Yes, they are, but the only fixed blades listed in the official BSA Catalog website are 8 Helle fixed blades, ranging from $105 to $150 and a $30 filet knife. Not exactly in the price range of most scouts to buy their own.
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They should be selling the cheap Terava Puukko, which would be an excellent choice.

It might not be sexy but its affordable and it works.
 
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Bladescout, you bring up a key point. Many companies flunk as possible sources of official BSA knives because they just cannot supply enough knives. I have wanted three of the knives from those guys in Finland. Only one has been in stock to order. Other times, I get an email saying they are back in stock, but they are gone again before I can get my order in (really want that puukko!). Camillus going under presented BSA with a problem that has not been easy to solve.

I was thinking MORA. Whattcha' think?
 
Yeah, those Terävä Pukko knives and the Skrama chopper gets torn off the shelves.

When I ordered mine, I noticed that seldom were all tree (the two Puukko sizes and the Skrama) available at the same time.

This would of course suck in regards to combined shipping.

I got mine and as mentioned in the 'Cheap Taste' thread in GD, Im done with Moras.

I did use them way back but would rather pay a smidgen more and get something else.

As for an affordable BSA knife, some Mora models would be excellent IMO.

Cheap knives, which actually work - cant beat that.

Just because I dont use Moras any more, doesnt mean, that I wouldnt recommend them to others/scouts.

Moras are often even more affordable than the Terävä Puukko in case of some models (I didnt just now check the Gaberg, as I no longer have an interest in Mora blades), so would be an excellent choice for kids starting out learning how to use a knife.

Hope you get your Terävä blades ASAP - here some pics to tide you over ;-)

NB all blades carbon and I bought the knives/Skrama with liners and made the sheaths myself.

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Colonial four blade camp pocket knife. I got it at a swap meet in El Paso, Texas back around 1977 while visiting my aunts family . I was on cloud nine, but I always wanted one of the “Official” ones sold at JC Penney’s. I don’t remember if it was Camillus, or Imperial. I was still pretty happy all the same. Back then in southeast Kansas if I’d have acquired a Buck 110 I would’ve thought something along the lines of God had chosen me to be the new Moses, or something. Suffice to say it was just a distant dream at that time. Now I’m a geezer who’s possessed several Bucks and enjoyed them all.
 
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Stupid question time. Would JC Penney’s have sold the same brand in all their stores,or would it be differ from store to store? If anyone wishes to humor me, Thanks in advance.
 
I mowed lawns and bought a case folder, hammerhead.

I lost that knife and then borrowed dads hunting buck sheath knife, the leaders didn't really like me having a 6 inch blade, lol

I also destroyed so many swiss army knifes, man we needed more instruction back in the day, lol
 
I carried a number of knives while in Scouts. A blue scaled Cub Scout knife, long lost. A white scaled Girl Scout Knife (stolen). A pearl handled Imperial fishing knife that I practically wore out. A number of Old Timer Stockman patterns. A 5" Case hunter I had to get my dad's permission to buy at Merithew's Hardware Store back around 1971 which is in a safe down Arizona way. I have a number of Scout knives nowdays; it seems I can't pass up a good deal, but this one is pretty special:

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Picked it up at a garage sale. The old guy selling it had the same initials as I do, and he carved them in the back of the sheath. My Case has the same "decoration". What can I say...
 
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